top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-29

Hunting Down My Son's Killer

http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/

14 years ago

1139 upvotes – 318 comments

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

14 years ago

989 upvotes – 147 comments

Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-hashing-algorithm-is-best-for-uniqueness-and-speed/145633#145633

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 104 comments

Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 56 comments

Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website

http://www.smore.com/clippy-js

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 58 comments

Why cheap customers cost more

http://sachagreif.com/why-cheap-customers-cost-more/

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/05/lit-motors-c1/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 159 comments

Why I Use Perl: Reliability

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/05/why-i-use-perl-reliability.html

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 193 comments

Screw the power users

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/screw-the-power-users.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 84 comments

CryEngine 3 soft-body physics simulator

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/cryengine-3-gets-awesome-soft-body-physics-simulator-20120529/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 70 comments

Stripe open-sources Einhorn

https://stripe.com/blog/meet-einhorn

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

The Design of LLVM

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240001128

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/apples-crystal-prison-and-future-open-platforms

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt&sub=HN0

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 34 comments

How to overcome “years of experience” requirements when applying for jobs

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1478/906

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 73 comments

Facebook trades under $30, down 7%+

http://www.google.com/finance?q=fb&safe=active

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 159 comments

SLR Camera Simulator

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 69 comments

With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream

http://gigaom.com/cloud/with-42m-more-10gen-wants-to-take-mongodb-mainstream/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Our experience using Clojure to speed up Beanstalk

http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/23998022427/beanstalk-clojure-love-and-20x-better-performance

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 70 comments

Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments
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